Tanya Chua
Tanya Chua (; born 28 January 1975) is a Singaporean singer-songwriter. She launched her singing career by releasing her debut studio album ''Bored'' in 1997. She was part of the trio that sang "Moments of Magic" (1999), Singapore's official millennium song. Her albums, ''Amphibian'' (2005), ''Goodbye & Hello (Tanya Chua album), Goodbye & Hello'' (2007), ''Sing It Out of Love'' (2011) and ''Depart'' (2021), each won her a Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer, Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer award. A veteran in the industry with a career spanning more than two decades, Chua is the first and only person to win the Best Mandarin Female Singer award four times at the Golden Melody Awards, and has achieved popularity in Greater China and among the Sinophone, Chinese-speaking world. Life and career 1975–1996: Early years and career beginnings Chua was born in Singapore on 28 January 1975. She attended CHIJ Saint Nicholas Girls' School, and achieved ...
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Cai (surname)
Cài () is a Chinese surname, Chinese-language surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state. In 2019 it was the 38th most common surname in China, but the 9th most common in Taiwan (as of 2018), where it is usually romanized as "Tsai" (based on Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Mandarin), "Tsay", or "Chai" and the 8th most common in Singapore, where it is usually romanized as "Chua", which is based on its Teochew dialect, Teochew and Hokkien pronunciation. Koreans use Chinese-derived family names and in Korean language, Korean, Cai is 채 in Hangul, "Chae" in Revised romanization of Korean, Revised Romanization, It is also a common name in Hong Kong where it is romanized as "Choy", "Choi" or "Tsoi". In Macau, it is spelled as "Choi". In Malaysia, it is romanized as "Choi" from the Cantonese pronunciation, and "Chua" or "Chuah" from the Hokkien or Teochew pronunciation. It is romanized in the Philippines as "Chua" or "Chuah", and in Thailand as "Chuo" (ฉั่ว ...
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Golden Melody Award For Best New Artist
The Golden Melody Award for Best New Artist () is an award given by the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea .... It was first presented in 1990 as New Artist Award. Winners and nominees New Artist Award (1990–1996) Best New Artist (1997–2003) Popular music - Best Mandarin New Artist (2005) Popular music - Best New Artist (2006) Most Promising New Artist (2008) Best New Artist (2009-present) References {{Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards ...
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17th Golden Melody Awards
The 17th Golden Melody Awards were held on 10 June 2006 at the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. Summary Although alternative musicians were nominated several times for awards, most of the categories were won by mainstream artists. The award ceremony featured South Korean pop singer Se7en as a guest artist. Chinese American rap artist Jin also performed with Taiwanese American singer Leehom Wang for their song titled '' Heroes of Earth''. The ''Taipei Times'' also dubbed the ceremony as having one of the "worst performances to date" due to poorly rehearsed performances by Singaporean artist Stefanie Sun and Hong Kong singer Eason Chan. The 17th Golden Melody Awards were held on 10 June 2006 at the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. References External links 17th Golden Melody Awards nominees 17th Golden Melody Awards winners 17th Golden Melody Awards photographs by ''The Star'' via the Associated Press Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards Golden Mel ...
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Gigi Leung
Gigi Leung Wing-kei (; born 25 March 1976) is a Hong Kong singer and actress. Early life She was born at Tsan Yuk Hospital in Sai Ying Pun on 25 March 1976 and was given the name Leung Pik-chi () for superstitious reasons; as a child, Leung suffered from frequent asthma attacks and it was believed a change of name would bring better health. At 176 cm, Leung earned the nickname of 'Tall Girl'. She has a twin brother named Keith Leung Wing-chun (Leung Wing-chun, ). Gigi Leung attended Maryknoll Convent School. Later, she went to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she gained a diploma from the School of Design. It was during her study at university that she accepted a modelling assignment from the watch company City Chain and caught the attention of film director Lee Chi-ngai who cast her in her very first movie, ''Doctor Mack'' (1995). The success of the movie brought her a further role in '' Full Throttle'' (1995), shot while she was finishing her diploma. For her s ...
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15th Golden Melody Awards
The 15th Golden Melody Awards were held on 8 May 2004 outside the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. Overseas guests included Korean artists, BoA, Kangta and TVXQ of SM Entertainment, The Voice Of Asia,Siti Nurhaliza Tata Young and Tsubasa Imai. Summary Jay Chou's fourth album ''Yeh Hui-mei'', named after his mother, was awarded ''Best Mandarin Album''. References External links *15th Golden Melody Awards winners* Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards The Golden Melody Awards (), commonly abbreviated as GMA, is an honor awarded by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Formosan-languages popular and traditional music ...

Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational entertainment and record label Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the "Record label#Major labels, big three" recording companies and the third-largest in the global music industry, after Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony Music Entertainment (SME). Formerly owned by Time Warner (later called WarnerMedia and its successor is Warner Bros. Discovery), the company sold WMG in 2004 to a group of private investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., in a move to alleviate Time Warner's debt load related to its merger with AOL. WMG was publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange from 2005 until 2011, when it announced its privatization and sale to Access Industries. It later had its second IPO on Nasdaq in 2020, once again becoming a public company. As of 2025, Access Industries remains the company's largest shareholder, owning 72% ...
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Tanya Chua At Golden Melody Awards 20060610c
Tanya may refer to: People * Tanya (name), a feminine given name Film * ''Tanya'' (1940 film), a Soviet musical comedy by Grigori Aleksandrov * ''Tanya'' (1976 film), a low-budget American comedy Music * "Tanya", a composition by Donald Byrd, on Dexter Gordon's album ''One Flight Up'' * ''Tanya'' (album), a 2002 album by Tanya Tucker Other uses * 2127 Tanya, an asteroid * Hurricane Tanya, a storm in the 1995 Atlantic hurricane season * Tanya (horse) (1902–1929), the winner of the 1905 Belmont Stakes horse race * Tanya (Judaism), an early work of Hasidic philosophy by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi See also * Tania (other) * Tanja (other) * Tonia (other) * Tonya (other) Tonya may refer to: * Tonya (name), the given name, and people by that name * Tonya, Turkey, a town and district of Trabzon Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey * Tonya, Uganda * Ton'ya (問屋) trade brokers of ancient Japan See also * ...

Faye Wong
Faye Wong ( zh, 王菲; pinyin: ''Wáng Fēi''; born 8 August 1969) is a Chinese singer-songwriter and actress. Early in her career, she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong (). Born in Beijing, she moved to British Hong Kong at the age of 18. She debuted with the Cantonese album ''Shirley Wong (album), Shirley Wong'' in 1989 and came to public attention by combining alternative pop, alternative music with mainstream C-pop, Chinese pop. Since the late 1990s, Wong has recorded mostly in her native Standard Chinese, Mandarin, with some songs recorded in languages such as English and Japanese. One of the biggest pop stars in the Chinese-speaking world, Wong has also gained followings in Japan and Southeast Asia. In the West she is perhaps best known for starring in Wong Kar-wai's films ''Chungking Express'' (1994) and ''2046 (film), 2046'' (2004). Upon her second marriage in 2005, she withdrew from the limelight, though she has sporadically returned to the stage. Often titl ...
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S2S Pte
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ea ...
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Where I Belong (Tanya Chua Song)
Where I Belong is an EP released in 2001 by Singaporean singer and songwriter, Tanya Chua. It was officially commissioned as the theme song to the 2001 National Day celebrations in Singapore. The song is easily recognized by many for its rock tune and smooth melody. In Singapore, the song became an immediate hit after its release, reaching number one status by mid-July 2001. It is the first and only EP to be released in NDP history. Twelve years later at NDP 2013, this song was sung by the combined schools choir, acknowledging the arrival of former prime ministers, Mr Lee Kuan Yew and ESM Goh Chok Tong. A rendition performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Singapore Symphony Youth Choir was released in August 2021 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the song's release. Background Originally part of the ''Sing Singapore'' project, the song was written and composed by Tanya. It was later recorded in ''Atomic Studios'' in early 2001 and mixed in the same studio b ...
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13th Golden Melody Awards
The 13th Golden Melody Awards ceremony was held at the Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 4 May 2002. References External links *13th Golden Melody Awards nominees*13th Golden Melody Awards winners Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards Golden Melody Awards The Golden Melody Awards (), commonly abbreviated as GMA, is an honor awarded by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Formosan-languages popular and traditional music ...